Next DLC: Conquest of Britain?

[Scythion]

All DLCs must contain Celts. It is known.

Celts, Celts everywhere... (getting tired of them)

[Darios]

Celts, Celts everywhere... (getting tired of them)

Me too...even the Dacians and Bastarnae are "Celts"

[Stefankollers]

I for one would love to see a "Brittania DLC". It should be so much more than the Iceni rebellion, what about Caratacus and his campaign to stop the Romans at the Medway or outside his capital......Camulodunum. Later his campaign in Wales. It should include the Four Legions taking on different objectives, the Hill forts, especially Maiden Castle in the West country. To the drive north and west to the Druid stronghold on Anglesey, to Lincoln, York and beyond.

The campaign should really extend beyond the initial invasion and show Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine wall in Scotland also include the battle of Mons Grapius which took place in North east Scotland. So lots of variation from beach-heads to river battles to pitched battles..........But then I'm biased being from that Island which stands aloof from mainland Europe......I wait with interest......But please CA Give us our "Numbered Legions".

[jamreal18]

These are the dlc's and features that I expected:

-Macedonian war (no more magic pikes by phalanx units)
-Parthian war (testudo now covers its sides)
-Mithridatic war (chariots can now kill friendly units if not used carefully)

Anyways,
-Britania Conquest (there is now fire-at-will for melee units)

Hope these features will be delivered through patches...

[gastovski]

These are the dlc's and features that I expected:

-Macedonian war (no more magic pikes by phalanx units)
-Parthian war (testudo now covers its sides)
-Mithridatic war (chariots can now kill friendly units if not used carefully)

Anyways,
-Britania Conquest (there is now fire-at-will for melee units)

Hope these features will be delivered through patches...

This.

[JaM]

i would prefer Pyrrhic Wars (maybe even linked with Galatian invasion of Macedon) but that would require CA to finally fix the Pikemen... and that is not happening in this life i suppose...

[jamreal18]

i would prefer Pyrrhic Wars (maybe even linked with Galatian invasion of Macedon) but that would require CA to finally fix the Pikemen... and that is not happening in this life i suppose...

CA will have to choose between Pyrrhic war and Macedonian war then...
Pyrrhic is more popular but Macedonian is more relevant...

I agree with you, i believe phalanx will be fixed by then especially the magic pikes when they release this dlc...

[Lugotorix]

For the love of poon....Trajan's Dacian Wars. Needs moar Thracians. Not Britons.

[Ishan]

Closed for cleaning.

Thread reopened. Several off-topic posts deleted. Let me quote the opening post:

Everytime a DLC is approaching for this game one finds new models to be added with a previous patch.

The Syrian Elephant textures and tower models were added before the Beasts of War DLC.
Iberian Tunics were added before the Hannibal DLC.
And some Celtic stuff I forgot about was added before CiG.

So I always search through the files to find models or textures that are not used in the game after each and every patch.

And this is what I found with the patch 12 beta:

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"briton horse cap".

I guess this means that the next DLC will be either a "Conquest of Britain" expantion, or a unit ack that includes a new Britain cav unit.

Non of the Britanic units currently in the game use it.

Orientate your posts around the said campaign pack DLC that could be "Conquest of Britain". Once that is done a poster can further talk about some other campaign pack DLC which he would like to see instead.

This thread is not about CA's cash grabbing DLC policies, broken features of Rome 2 and other similar stuff that goes along with it. If anyone tries to derail this thread again then i will hand out infractions.

[evenflowjimbo]

Does this mean the Iceni are getting better chariots?

[jamreal18]

Does this mean the Iceni are getting better chariots?

I love unit variety!

[GideonAI]

I am very excited for this if they make a map of the British Isles. In time, you may see why...

[GussieFinkNottle]

I posted a hypothesis for this on a similar thread, and I think this campaign could really work. I'll plagiarise my own argument: I have to say I'd really enjoy a CiG-style conquest of Britannia campaign. The Plautius campaign was far more knife-edge than the history books tend to say, in fact 43AD shouldn't be cited as the date of the Roman 'conquest' but rather 'invasion'. They came very close to being defeated and casualties were horrific, and Caratacus caused huge problems for the Romans. On several occasions the authorities came close to withdrawing, and for hundreds of years Britain required a disproportionate garrison, nearly a third of the Roman army at times.

A gradual campaign against ferocious foes could be every bit as fun and challenging as CiG, and late-game there could be a 'Boudica's revolt' event similar to the CiG Gallic revolt, where lots of tribes in the east rebel against you, or a Caratacus insurgency event in the West, where the Welsh Silures and Ordovices unite against Rome.
For playable factions there could be the Romans (unique leader Aulus Plautius), Iceni (unique leader Prasutagus, then later Boudica), Catuvellauni (unique leader Caratacus) and Brigantes (unique leader Queen Cartimandua). The historical battle unlocked would be the battle of Watling Street.
If the campaign stretched until Boudica's revolt, it could cover a 20-year period (6 or 12 turns per year?) or even 40 years if it includes Agricola and a map of all of the British isles, or at least all of Scotland/Caledonia.

For anyone who really wants to get a feel for the tremendous difficulty for the Romans of subjugating Britain, the Simon Scarrow eagle series does an excellent atmospheric job (the 2 main characters are fictional Roman centurions in the middle of great historical events, rather like the HBO Rome series, but as books, and set in Claudius' reign).

The gradual conquest:

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It would also give them the opportunity to include the unique design of Britannic hill forts.
Maiden 'castle':

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Badbury rings:

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And they released a Britannia pic:

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[jamreal18]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSEHMtj3dZg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5kM_b1CGvU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPdHU4kl2c

[Chevalier IX]

If this is in fact the case I could see this as the DLC that adds not only a model for Bouddica but also female models for other factions as well,such as the Shield Maidens etc.

[krisslanza]

If this is in fact the case I could see this as the DLC that adds not only a model for Bouddica but also female models for other factions as well,such as the Shield Maidens etc.

This is, honestly, my greatest hope for this DLC.

I have been waiting for ages for female soldiers, and generals, in vanilla Total War. I'm going to keep my hype down though, because it might just be for a special portrait for voice-over or maybe cutscenes.

[prithupaul]

Yeah, it will be epic, if some of the model variations in selected units would be female warriors, fighting along side males. Not just separate female-only units.

[GussieFinkNottle]

I do support having very rare female generals, but not female units. That just stretches credulity too far, this is meant to be a history game not a fantasy. Isolated examples are almost always high-status women in leadership roles, so generals are really the only credible area they could appear. This would be for barbarian, eastern and semi-barbarian (e.g. Illyria) factions only. The Romans, Greeks and Carthaginians would never let a woman near the battlefield.

[Mary The Quene]

Oh really? Why has it always to be a DLC campaign about Celts? Seriously we had already 2 dlc campaigns which covers boring celts. Where is the love for Hellas? They don't even have Corinth, Sicyon, Thebes or Halicarnassus, Miletus,Aetolian league,Aegean league included in the main game. Why don't they make a DLC about Ancient greece? Also the battle of Waling street was just a bunch of barbarians storming the roman shield wall without tactics and got slaughtered by the romans. Why not thinking out of the box and make a Peloponnesian war DLC with the historical battle of Delium? Or perhaps slightly out of date the battle of Leuctra? Dissapointed if they're going to make another dlc about Barbarians

[Lord Baratheon]

I wouldn't mind this DLC, it's an interesting scenario. Britain being an Island would make for a simple self-contained campaign. Plus we would get to see Imperial Legionaries. It would be fun if Ireland was included aswell.